Political Party Timeline

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    First Party System

    The federalists party who wanted a strong united central government, and close ties to Great Britain. Democratic-Republican Party who wanted farms and no world trade
  • First election with parties

    First election with parties
    This was the first election with poltical parties in United States history.
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    Second Party System

    The Democratic-Republican split up into Jacksonian Democrats with was lead by Andrew Jackson with becames the modern Democrats.They believed in more power to the President, didn't like the bank of United State, and They didn't want to modernizing industries if meant raising taxs. They faced the whig party who was lead by Henry Clay. They want to give more power to congress and they wanted to modernizing industries even if it meant they had to raise taxs.
  • Third Party System

    After the civil war ended the all the white southerners joined the Democrats but the African Americans joined the Republican party
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    Fourth Party System

    The people, names, and belives didn't change but the Republicans blamed the Democrats for the Panic of 1893. The Repubicans dominated this time period.
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    Fifth Party System

    Not much change but the Republicans lost a lot of members because the great deprestion